Looking for A Movie Title, AGAIN!

[TheeGoatPig]

There was a movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s. It was in 3d (as was the style at the time). There was a group of men and women that I think were treasure hunting in an old castle. They were traversing this one room with suspension wires because the floor was booby-trapped. There were tons of colored jewels on the walls, and some of them were booby-trapped as well.

That is all that I remember about it... I don't know the rest of the plot, or who was in it. Just what I mentioned above.

Does anyone out there actually know the name to what I am referring?

 

[Weird Harold]

...the late 70s or early 80s. It was in 3d (as was the style at the time). There was a group of men and women that I think were treasure hunting in an old castle. ...

I have no clue, but IMDB only lists one movie with '3D' in the title that you could have seen in the 80's: 59. 3D Jamboree (1956)

There are a bunch of late 90's movies with 3D in the title (or alternate titles.)

I do know that there were a lot more 3D movies made in the 50's and 60's that don't show up on that particular searcch at IMDB, but 3D just wasn't very popular in the 70's and 80's.

ETA: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/3-dimensional/ turns up more 3D from the 70's and 80's but they're all foreign films with one bollywood live action and a bunch of japanese and european animations.

 

[water_side]

could it be ?

Although it wasn't in 3D, the date and jewelled walls/traps description reminds me of Krull ?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

No, it is not Krull. I own that on DVD The movie I am talking about was modern day, and I am 90% sure it was in 3d, and came out before Krull.

 

[Tricialen]

I don't know but when you find out please let me know...I love movies like this

 

[Saucyminx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film

This is has quite an extensive list of 3D movies. Sounds like maybe you are referring to Treasure of the Four Crowns.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film

This is has quite an extensive list of 3D movies. Sounds like maybe you are referring to Treasure of the Four Crowns.

Maybe... I'll have to run that name by my mother, and see if that is the right one or not.

 

[michchick98]

3D just wasn't very popular in the 70's and 80's.

Okay, not to start an argument or take this thread off topic, but I beg to differ with this comment. I can remember quite a few movies from the 80s that were in 3-D and a good majority of them were horror.

No, it wasn't as popular as it was in the 50s and 60s, but I do remember going to a few 3-D movies when I was a teenager.

As for the title of the movie TGP is looking for, I have no clue. It doesn't ring any bells with me.

 

[popcorn2721]

There was a movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s. It was in 3d (as was the style at the time). There was a group of men and women that I think were treasure hunting in an old castle. They were traversing this one room with suspension wires because the floor was booby-trapped. There were tons of colored jewels on the walls, and some of them were booby-trapped as well.

That is all that I remember about it... I don't know the rest of the plot, or who was in it. Just what I mentioned above.

Does anyone out there actually know the name to what I am referring?

Based on your description and what I remember from when I was a child (movie came out around '82 or '83, I think), you are in fact talking about the Treasure of The Four Crowns as Saucyminx stated.
I cant believe anyone else saw that movie.. I only wanted to see it because it was 3D. The plot was lite and the 3D part didn't really work for me at the time.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Maybe... I'll have to run that name by my mother, and see if that is the right one or not.

Jesus H. Christ, Thee. Are you still living with your mother?

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Jesus H. Christ, Thee. Are you still living with your mother?

OMG. Sorry that made me giggle. I feel like I'm too young to be here, which is nice. I didn't know they made 3d's befoe 2000.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

OMG. Sorry that made me giggle. I feel like I'm too young to be here, which is nice. I didn't know they made 3d's befoe 2000.

Um... Try The Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954 Haha

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Um... Try The Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954 Haha

I don't think they have it at blockbuster.

I wasn't trying to be crass. Honestly this is new to me. I was introduced to 3D at an amusement park a few years back. I thought it was a new thing. As I said, makes me feel young. I've laughed at my little sister for thinking well established things were created by her generation. Apparently I'm no better.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I don't think they have it at blockbuster.

I wasn't trying to be crass. Honestly this is new to me. I was introduced to 3D at an amusement park a few years back. I thought it was a new thing. As I said, makes me feel young. I've laughed at my little sister for thinking well established things were created by her generation. Apparently I'm no better.

It's been around a long time, but originally you had to wear some really stupid cardboard glasses with colored lenses. There was a short period when they were made, but never were popular because of the glasses. Frankly the films were generally "B" movies (Lex Barker? ) with most in a horrid sort of black and white with red and blue tinges. They pretty much sucked. Occasionally, you can still find them in a theater revival.
In the 1990's someone came up with a 3D technology that did away with the eyeware. That coupled with Fractal Technology made a much better presentation. Maybe it will come back or maybe it already has without all the hoopla, touting 3D.

 

[glynndah]

Hi, Jenny!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Hi, Jenny!

OMG... Glynndah, the good fairy... Hiya, Sweety

And by the way...
Another Fine Author's thread expertly hijacked by "The Insand Porn and Mystery Writer, Jenny Jackson."

 

[glynndah]

OMG... Glynndah, the good fairy... Hiya, Sweety

And by the way...
Another Fine Author's thread expertly hijacked by "The Insand Porn and Mystery Writer, Jenny Jackson."

Well, if he's not around to guard it, we might as well.

 

[Weird Harold]

In the 1990's someone came up with a 3D technology that did away with the eyeware. That coupled with Fractal Technology made a much better presentation. Maybe it will come back or maybe it already has without all the hoopla, touting 3D.

Almost every movie I see advertised in the last two years or so has an IMAX 3D version in concurrent release. IMAX 3D requires special glasses, but they just aren't the red/blue lenses and the moviesdon't have the red and blue ghosts that caused headaches if you didn't wear the red/blue glasses.

3D has even come to television -- with a variant of older red/blue technology. Disney Channel has had Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers specials featuring 3D segments (cut from their 3D concert movies, actually) and 3D glasses distributed through Burger King, McDonalds, and other outlets (IIRC, K-Mart participated in one distribution for a 3D TV special.)

3D has never been a consistent phenomenon, though. It has been only in "selected theaters" with non-3D versions in wider distribution. I saw Creature from the Black Lagoon at the tail end of its original theater release (in 1955 when it made it down to small-town theaters) and I'm almost positive that it was NOT in 3D in my hometown's theater. (I was only six at the time, but the movie made such an impression I'm sure I would have remembered the goggles.)

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Almost every movie I see advertised in the last two years or so has an IMAX 3D version in concurrent release. IMAX 3D requires special glasses, but they just aren't the red/blue lenses and the moviesdon't have the red and blue ghosts that caused headaches if you didn't wear the red/blue glasses.

3D has even come to television -- with a variant of older red/blue technology. Disney Channel has had Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers specials featuring 3D segments (cut from their 3D concert movies, actually) and 3D glasses distributed through Burger King, McDonalds, and other outlets (IIRC, K-Mart participated in one distribution for a 3D TV special.)

3D has never been a consistent phenomenon, though. It has been only in "selected theaters" with non-3D versions in wider distribution. I saw Creature from the Black Lagoon at the tail end of its original theater release (in 1955 when it made it down to small-town theaters) and I'm almost positive that it was NOT in 3D in my hometown's theater. (I was only six at the time, but the movie made such an impression I'm sure I would have remembered the goggles.)

Hi, Harold. Wonderful seeing your old hairy face again, my friend
And I saw Creature on a Saturday afternoon TV special in 3D. As I recall you had to get the stupid cardboard glasses at 711. That was something like 10 or 12 years ago.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Thinking...

Since Thee and Sarah are still around I might do a sequel to the Gardening Story. Wonder what Wilma would do next??

 

[TheeGoatPig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film

This is has quite an extensive list of 3D movies. Sounds like maybe you are referring to Treasure of the Four Crowns.

Based on your description and what I remember from when I was a child (movie came out around '82 or '83, I think), you are in fact talking about the Treasure of The Four Crowns as Saucyminx stated.
I cant believe anyone else saw that movie.. I only wanted to see it because it was 3D. The plot was lite and the 3D part didn't really work for me at the time.

Yes, that is the one. I talked to my mother last night and she confirmed it.

Jesus H. Christ, Thee. Are you still living with your mother?

Regardless of whether I live with her or not (I do, I know that isn't all that manly of me, but whatever), she was there when I saw it on TV all those years ago, and I needed her to confirm that was the movie that I saw as a child.

OMG... Glynndah, the good fairy... Hiya, Sweety

And by the way...
Another Fine Author's thread expertly hijacked by "The Insand Porn and Mystery Writer, Jenny Jackson."

Well, if he's not around to guard it, we might as well.

I got what I Juanted out of it anyway. Derail away!

Since Thee and Sarah are still around I might do a sequel to the Gardening Story. Wonder what Wilma would do next??

I loved that story, and was just thinking about it and you the other day. How are you? Did you move back to Ireland as you were threatening to?

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

It's been around a long time, but originally you had to wear some really stupid cardboard glasses with colored lenses. There was a short period when they were made, but never were popular because of the glasses. Frankly the films were generally "B" movies (Lex Barker? ) with most in a horrid sort of black and white with red and blue tinges. They pretty much sucked. Occasionally, you can still find them in a theater revival.
In the 1990's someone came up with a 3D technology that did away with the eyeware. That coupled with Fractal Technology made a much better presentation. Maybe it will come back or maybe it already has without all the hoopla, touting 3D.

From what I've seen of it recently, outside of the cool dinosaur one at Laronde (the amusement park), in movies it seems to take alot away from the movie. It's a vague observation, but in some movies (Like the one with Brendan Fraiser...don't remember the title) it seems the special effects negate the need for good acting

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I loved that story, and was just thinking about it and you the other day. How are you? Did you move back to Ireland as you were threatening to?

No. I went to Ireland and couldn't bring myself to stay there without Linnie. So I'm back in Oregon.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

No. I went to Ireland and couldn't bring myself to stay there without Linnie. So I'm back in Oregon.

That is too bad. I hope that wherever you end up staying you eventually find peace though.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

That is too bad. I hope that wherever you end up staying you eventually find peace though.

Thee, Linnie is buried in Belfast close to her parents. That was all I could do. Then I drifted around Belfast for a few months, but it wasn't the same. All I could think of was the plans she and I had. I couldn't stay there so I took a vacation, saw a lot of the U.S. and finally returned home.
I've missed you people.